Monday, May 10, 2010

More Messing About With WW2 Camouflage

Everything I seemed to be working on over the weekend had some camouflage. I have some SS troops and some fallschirmjägers I’m working on and can’t quite nail down a pattern to use for either.

(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)

Here’s the Fallschirmjägers. They’re all from Bolt Action Miniatures. Because I keep “experimenting” with different schemes they’re doubtless going to end up looking a ragtag lot… I’m still not entirely happy with the smock patterns… but… whatever…

A couple SS troops I picked up off Ebay. They were listed as “West Wind?” but I’m not sure…

On the left is the pea-dot pattern I’ve done lots on 20mm figures and have refined a bit and am rather happy with it… The fellow on the right is in, I think, an earlier pattern. I was feeling inspired by the awesome job Beccas did on his Panzer-Grenadiers over at Wargamer Blue - while I don’t think I quite got it quite like Beccas did, I’m still fairly pleased with the results.

Not sure if I should do a mishmash of different schemes for these guys or just settle on one… I’ll probably just settle on one… and it’ll probably be the pea-dot scheme… we’ll see.

An odd German infantryman in a smock from Artizan Designs. I was shooting for the splinter pattern and he turned out so-so… I don’t know.. splinters aren’t angular enough…?

A russian sniper from First Corps (another odd item picked up off ebay…). Damn… it looks like I forgot to paint the rifle sling!?

The First Corps Russians seems a bit on the Beefy side. I only have the sniper and an MG team. I'm just finishing up the MG team and will likely post pictures today or tomorrow - I'll post a comparison shot with the Bolt Action MG team.